::cackling::
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Beverly - Apr 13, 2009 6:00:59 pm PDT #5768 of 10436
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
P.M. Marc - Apr 13, 2009 6:15:05 pm PDT #5769 of 10436
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My first thought was that it was Renee Esme, smushed together.
That was mine, of course, Lillian has Esme as one of her middle names.
Thankfully, Renee is not the other one.
Laga - Apr 13, 2009 8:49:59 pm PDT #5770 of 10436
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I haven't read Twilight but Reneesme looks like "Renee's me" to me. I figured maybe she was a distant relative of Sam I Am.
Theodosia - Apr 14, 2009 1:19:35 am PDT #5771 of 10436
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Evidently Utahns/Mormons are notorious for odd names, partly because of the emphasis on geneaology. Google 'Mormon Baby Names' for lists
The quintessential Utah name often has a French-sounding prefix such as Le-, La-, Ne-, or Va-. Often names appear to have genesis in the combined names of the parents--Veradeane or GlenDora, for example. Related is the practice of feminizing the father's name--as in Vonda (dad is Vaughan) or Danetta. Others, such as Snell or Houser, appear to be surnames called into service as first names.
Related is the curious tendency, more common in Utah than elsewhere, for men (women do not seem to do this) to use the first initial, then the full middle name as the given name, such as L. Flake Rogers, who ran for office in Utah County when we lived there. (Come on, you've noticed this habit among the general authorities of the LDS church!) Besides puzzling over why someone would want to be known as "Flake," it makes one wonder just what the "L" stands for.
Ailleann - Apr 14, 2009 3:57:55 am PDT #5772 of 10436
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Heh. Now she's writing RPF about Jesus Christ.
I have an ARC version of this that my friend who works for a bookstore gave me. I have yet to crack it open.
But I wouldn't just make ugly, badly spelled shit up, because I am not fourteen.
And methinks Fay has hit on the crux of the issue.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 14, 2009 6:32:19 am PDT #5773 of 10436
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
We're sure that Meyer isn't deliberately attempting to paint her clumsy-and-repressed-yet-awesomely-fabulous Mary Sue character as a teenaged twit with no common sense, right?
Fay - Apr 14, 2009 6:42:26 am PDT #5774 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Reasonably sure.
But if it's on purpose, then it's a magnificent success.
Connie Neil - Apr 14, 2009 6:42:48 am PDT #5775 of 10436
brillig
it makes one wonder just what the "L" stands for
LaDell, Laverkin, Levi, Laman, LaRon, LaVell--no, he'd use LaVell, because that's the name of the hallowed BYU football coach.
Fay - Apr 14, 2009 6:44:29 am PDT #5776 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I've concluded that he is in fact L.
Morgana - Apr 14, 2009 11:27:50 am PDT #5777 of 10436
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
Hey everyone -- something called Dreamwidth keeps popping up on my flist. It seems like most people already know about it, but this is new to me. I popped over to look at it, and it looks very much like LiveJournal. Does anyone know what the difference is? Is there likely to be a mass migration of users from lj to dw?
As for Twilight, I haven't read the books, so I can't contribute to the snark. But really, Reneesme? It doesn't roll trippingly off the tongue, does it?